Word: ky
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mueller Tomahawk, Ky...
...well as to avoid drug pushers and to cope with racism and greed. Before every concert the four teen-agers joined hands in a prayer circle, a ritual they continue to observe. Small-town promoters quickly spotted their vulnerability. Once after they had given two performances in Paducah, Ky., the promoter pulled out a gun and refused to pay. Says Gladys: "There was nothing we could do except leave in a hurry because we were peace-loving people...
Ever since the beginning of the nuclear age, the U.S. Government has had a monopoly on the domestic manufacture of basic atomic fuel: enriched uranium.* But the Government's three enrichment plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., and Portsmouth, Ohio, cannot keep pace with the demands of proliferating nuclear power plants; the output of enriched uranium has been booked for the next 25 years. If the U.S. is not to lose the lion's share of the lucrative nuclear-fuel market to foreign newcomers-the U.S.S.R., France and others-the Federal Government must either build at least...
...real tragedy to me is the people who are completely trapped. I was one of the most privileged. I didn't suffer with the others, and I felt bad because of it, like I was less Vietnamese than the others. Americans look at Thieu and Ky and believe the whole country is corrupt because they are. But there were people who really believed in democracy and freedom. For 30 years people in the South have been building up new values, learning to believe in democracy. Every family had sons killed in the war, and people built up hatred...
...camp had one incongruous celebrity: former Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who was billeted in a tent with 15 other refugees. Still sporting his familiar lavender ascot and displaying a forlorn jauntiness, Ky stood in long chow lines with the others, complained about the cold nights, and asked visiting reporters for warm underwear. He spoke vaguely of seeking an American sponsor to set him up as a farmer "in Arkansas or San Antonio," or of finding a new life as a cab driver. "For us," he said, "the only hope is that we shall return. When Hitler occupied Europe, people like...